IT'S THE 2012-13 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS THREAD

Baltimore at New England
San Francisco at Atlanta

I'm taking Pats and Niners, and think upsets are unlikely (though still possible).

have to think the 9ers are taking this all the way; feels like the stars are aligning for another Patriots Super Bowl loss

In my ideal world the Niners go all the way to the Superbowl and lose
But I'm mean.

I dunno if I really have a pick for either game tbh

Pats over Niners

baltimore against new england seems like the closest game in football right now. the afc game last year and the regular season game this year, both at gillette, were really as close as you can get without finishing tied. baltimore should've leveled the first game, pats should've won the second. but it does feel like a lot water has gone under the bridge since those games, and new england seems to have got better and baltimore worse. the big question is, what will new england do to stop flacco throwing the ball over their defense?

the nfc game is a lot easier to call. i can't find an angle that makes it look like an atlanta win. niners will score 30 and keep atlanta below 20.

Matt Ryan is such a robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trHNRK7NfUc

Falcons beat Niners. I like the Ravens, so I would hope they dont play the Falcons in the SB so i can root against the Pats.

the whole "it's about who finishes" narrative is kinda getting turned on its ear. the best 2nd half teams were the Broncos, Packers, Seahawks, and Redskins, all eliminated. all four teams left are ones that seemed to have some open questions going into the playoffs (outside of the Pats I guess)

Packers? Because they sort of caught up a little bit when the win was out of reach?

I mean second half of the season. Skins won 7 straight to close out the season. Broncos won 11 straight. Seahawks were arguably the best team from Week 9 on. Packers started 2-3 and then went 9-2 the rest of the way. Meanwhile the Ravens looked super vulnerable to close things out, people were having doubt about the 49ers defense, and the Falcons are just dumped one to the Panthers.

Falcons had wrapped up home field by that time and had just nuked the giants. That game meant nothing.

what will new england do to stop flacco throwing the ball over their defense?

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, January 14, 2013 2:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not sure why teams are having trouble w this, i mean just cover the deep routes and make him beat you w/consistant short passing, hint he wont be able to do it

playing deep coverage and stopping deep passes are not necessarily the same thing. examples: baltimore's TD at the end of regular time vs denver; new england's secondary for the last 6 years

flacco makes it easy tho because he has such trouble w accuracy, usually you theres some sort tension between letting teams killing w the short game a guarding against the long bomb, and denvers fuck up isnt really instructive as it was just a mistake rather than something produced by the inherent difficulty of guarding against flacco going deep to the right sideline

just stick a safety 30 yards downfield on the right sideline and everything will be cool, i am a defensive genius

my special defense to counter the flac-attack: 4-man front, 3 deep zone, the other four disguised with each down between 0-2 blitzing and 2-4 in underneath zones, mixing it up. get some pressure (pats struggle w/this vs flacco) and some cheap interception opportunities, and at least discourage the long pass.

usually you theres some sort tension between letting teams killing w the short game a guarding against the long bomb

this is the most beautiful sentence ever written by a human person

it is tough just to flip a switch when you have been composing spam emails all day right?

haha

agree that scheming baltimore is a pretty simple exercise, what makes their thing work is that boldin is simply outstanding at catching balls in traffic and smith is showing some of that skill too. patriots will need to show some srs ball skills to match up.

i am not 100% sold on dennard although he is certainly showing promise, but i think NE goes into this game with 1 guy at CB and 1 guy at safety who are reliable against the pass in their given position. in the game earlier this season there was basically 0 at each. mccourty's switch to free safety has been really amazing for him - he totally benefits from not having to line up opposite a receiver at the line

cool just put both those guys on the right side, yr move flacco

curious to see if they stick talib on boldin all game, that will be an absolute slugfest

curious to see if they can goad flacco into an or two int deep down the right sideline

curious guys itt

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/headshots/nfl/players/full/11252.png&w=350&h=254

i almost guarantee that they will sic talib on boldin, with dennard on smith and mccourty shading over the top or vs 3rd receiver depending on field positon.

the right side thing is so bizarre, i don't even know. i am sure it makes sense somehow but smh anyway.

its the one pass he throws good, its a very difficult pass, and he throws it very good

five yard slant, the receiver will most like at least make contact w/the ball w/some part of his body

thing is, if he hits free agency, which is a legit possibility with baltimore's cap situation, he would get paid so much money he'd be able to send everyone in the US a 5 dollar bill stapled to a postcard that says 'fuck you'.

really flacco is a hot property, im dubious, ill take the money tho, i mean five dollars is five dollars

the right side thing is so bizarre, i don't even know. i am sure it makes sense somehow but smh anyway.

― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:00 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya its weird, like youd think he could just turn his body a lil toward the left sideline and throw the same pass, its like how nba players shoot better from different spots on the floor of the same distance from the basket

i was listening to something recently where they were talking about being impressed with kaepernick because in his first couple starts he was already throwing left a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Zce-QT7MGSE

haha I was just coming here to post that

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8849439/how-terminology-erhardt-perkins-system-helped-maintain-dominance-tom-brady-patriots

this is pretty interesting, i would've liked it if he'd gone into it a bit further

awesome piece. if you haven't seen it, read the greg bedard story recently posted in the eagles thread for how the pats use terminology with no-huddle/chip kelly concepts

interesting!

ghost tosser

has the dan (le) batard piece on jason taylor been posted yet?

probably, but it is quite something

that's pretty horrendous. i think it's a cultural competitive thing, rather than anything inherent to football though, which is to say it could be some way remediable if the will was really there. it seems like things are creeping in that direction, i hope so.

yeah i'm kinda hoping that culture changes in a big way, but it's kind of hard to foresee when you got guys like Alex Smith get a concussion and then lose their jobs

it may be a cultural competitive thing, but i don't think too many other sports make such demands

i mean god bless jason taylor and his competitive will, but wtf

yeah also Jason Taylor comes off as being kind of an idiot here, that just really seems inhuman

surely some of those games were like, late in a losing season too

whatever, dudes

you know as well as i do that there is a concrete manifest culture in the nfl that you play through anything. which is reinforced by the lack of guaranteed contracts and the supply of releasable cannon-fodder available to replace you.

jason taylor was a star, relatively speaking, and at least made some cash. no one else gets writeups in major newspapers.

btw here is franco harris hoping that blueberries and crosswords stave off dementia. he's had a better run than most and a statue, at least

i'm thinking more like, why did no part of his brain kick in to say "I should really sit out a week because my career could be over otherwise"?

I think people w/ very active that part of the brains generally don't end up as professional athletes

definitely

my god jason taylor, sit down for a min big guy u have a catheter in you doin stuff

THIS

FUCKING

GUY

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/nfl-rapidreports/21569590/video-boston-mayor-discusses-pats-stars-wilcock-and-gonk

WILCOCK?

i mean he's doing this on purpose right?

dude just sucks at names, also he was just in the hospital for like 2 months

he literally said "wilcock"

and having lived here for his entire mayoral reign i am completely unsurprised by that

i'm not surprised either given HONDO & KJ, but still "wilcock" is a biiiiiiiiiiit much

Let's give a round of applause to Coach Bellichump and his great quarter back Tom Beardy

Not to mention that up-and-coming pitcher Clay Buttholes

lol mumbles menino never change

Just got my tix for the Falcons game from a vendor at work. It's gonna be loud.

sorry to be the guy who posts lolvideos, but this is really good

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Zce-QT7MGSE&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZce-QT7MGSE%26feature%3Dyoutu.be

worth reading: http://www.esquire.com/print-this/nfl-injuries-0213?page=all

"Anybody who tells you that they feel bad causing an injury is probably lying. How can you feel bad? You're going up against a guy who is just as big and strong as you are. Your coach tells you to go kick his fucking ass. Your teammates tell you to go kick his fucking ass. Your father and your brother tell you to go kick his fucking ass. The media tells you to go kick his fucking ass. Before the game, your wife tells you to go kick his fucking ass. So you go and you kick his fucking ass. And if he gets hurt, how can you go back and say, 'I didn't mean for you to get hurt like that.' You're taught to hurt people. How can you say you didn't mean to?"

The Onion has some pretty good work on today's matchups.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/in-stunning-change-of-character-bill-belichick-ado,30951/

Be sure to read the follow up article.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/joe-flacco-already-preparing-apology-to-ray-lewis,30861/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/jack-harbaugh-admits-hes-pulling-for-tom-brady-to,30960/

xp yeah even at the high school level that's pretty much what it's like, makes me glad I never persued (i.e "was not good enough to play") college ball

ummm okay at the bernie -> DX crotch chop celebrations by falcons db bro

That lil' dance made my day. Kenny Powers would be proud.

I love the subdued injury timeout remix of the Fox theme

lol i know

flacons are feisty today

no doubt. some luck that the niners didn't turn it over on the last two plays now

how does kaepernick look so far? i missed like 8 min of gametime at the start

ATL fucking people up

the things bil magill must be yelling rn

Kaepernick hasn't done anything so far. Kind of amazed that the niners are getting shut down so hard.

atlanta +4.5 is looking real good right now

the weakness of SF's D is def their corners, and if they can't get a pass rush......

and if they get worn out by being on the field that much

o_O JONES

holy shit

JULIO

wow what a throw

wow

this was not what I was expecting

crazy ball skills

49ers can't keep up with Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQsFBc6Swo

Randy Moss <3

i may have to watch after all

good grief, how did they leave davis that wide open

niners offense is so sick

cover that man

Matty Ice's 2 min offense is pretty

BOOYA

well damn

was too timid to pick any team this weekend so I bet the over on both. lookin good so far!

What was that funky music they were playing behind the Mike Nokan graphic?

RIP ATL

for christ's sake, akers

"expect a lot of jacquizz rogers"

i perpetually am

OH NO MATTY

matt ryan just can't have a good game front to back

#MattyLight

Niners with another chance, are they gonna do something this time?

lol @ that fake

the falcons are really trying to drive their fans to suicide

Nice karate chop to the face

cmon like anyone could stay out of the way of kaepernick's chin

ray lewis hit manning harder, postgame

That was consensual

9ers have gashed atl out of timeouts/stoppages

crabtree really got assaulted there

huge play, dunta

so brutal

falcons gonna go to the super bowl cuz two obviously superior teams can't figure out how to not fuck up royally in the red zone

god do the falcons suck

what a miserable excuse for a good team

well remember that they had no business even being in this game but

i know, but they were a 1 seed. it's maddening.

they were a #1 seed 2 yrs ago and lost @ home in the div round by 27 so theyre making progress

that call is really taking "indisputable evidence" to its logical extreme, jesus

welp, 1 play for the sb

AYEEEE

rip bill magill

wow that was a fucking terrible play

^^ & ppl who had atl +4.5 can rejoice also

fffuuuu

wtf falcons

i didn't even want the falcons to win and i'm still incredibly pissed about that playcall, christ

yippie ki yay post game show

lmao how do you not get the play off after that

okay, so assuming this ends in a hail mary... out of 100 hail mary plays, how many times does julio jones come down with it? 5? 10? less? more? atlant could have worse percentages

wonder if matt ryan can even throw it 60 yards right now

can't think of a more terrifying end-of-game scenario than being on the opposite end of a julio jones hail mary attempt

or that

cool play, atl

patriots have to win now to spare us from two weeks of stories about the people who spawned the harbaugh bros

welp

frank gore scored the game winning TD and then did the dirty bird

and then taunted the crowd

rip bill magill

Dude's gonna be extra salty for the foreseeable future. Brace yourselves.

eddie debartolo jr really looks like a guy named eddie debartolo jr

Earned it imo

di bartolo looks like an old lesbian

di bartolo sr looks like an old lesbian

oops lol

but he does

kaepernick is country as HYELL

kaepernick looks like a ferengi

magill's gonna throw out his falcon flags and pretend he never rooted for them along with all the other bandwagon retards; good riddance

u ok boo

Whoo-hoo!

awwww frank gore's son

I thought that choad "2 touchdowns over Seattle" magill was a Chicago fan anyway? what a piece of shit. soooo glad falcons are bumped from the tourney yet again. sooo glad I get to enjoy the infinitely more exciting and likable Niners for one more week.

lol i also had recollections of bill being a bears fan

anyway, pats are gonna win this one by abt two tds ::ducks::

ravens/pats has been about as close as humanly possible over the last 2 seasons... two games, both of which came down to last second FGs

if cundiff makes a 3 yard field goal, flacco would have two career playoff wins in foxboro. think about that.

and this is where that streak ends

i've been ambivalent about the ravens in the harbaugh era but i'm totally rooting for them after seeing ray lewis in his Bane get up. he has me in a spell.

?

look at him today. his insane facemask + bionic arm cast makes him look like an even more evil bane

lol

much as I don't want Harbaugh Bowl, I would love to see the Ravens go all the way. But I'm cool if Pats win too.

harbowl would be fucking hilarious

harbl

!

Pats backup QB looks like Brady's stunt double

He's a body double. They use him to confuse assassins.

Tim Brody

@wsbtv: Witnesses told @RachelStockman Falcons fan punched the 49ers fan, 49ers fan pulled a knife and cut/stabbed the Falcons fan.

watching someone pull a hamstring is always kind of hilarious

especially when its aqib talib

talib stay healthy bro

horrible decision to punt

lots of unfulfilled diving in this game

what the fuck kinda insane play was that

kruger is fuckin insane

ray rice you magical jelly bean of a running back

raymell imo

ray rice! wes welker!

What a nice drive!

the ravens secondary turns on itself!

gronk shouldve worn bob kraft's shirt today

They should allow gronking in the owner's box

BRADY PWND BY REF

lol ref not ready for qb scramble

which is now fucking the pats over

danny!

bad decision w/the clock

rip bill magill

I thought that choad "2 touchdowns over Seattle" magill was a Chicago fan anyway? what a piece of shit. soooo glad falcons are bumped from the tourney yet again. sooo glad I get to enjoy the infinitely more exciting and likable Niners for one more week.

Crabtree is being investigated for sexual assault ATM.

so he's guilty until proven innocent, got it

can we not

The AFC championship sure is full of deep incomplete passes.

oh wes

Right on the numbers, gotta catch those

ray rice

rice & deep bombs only plz

Considering how frivolously sexual assault allegations are thrown around... But anyway, in my own case, that puts a damper on likability, not talking about guilt.

i've been enjoying bernard pierce

flacco trying to get his own players murdered, how baltimore

def feel like the patriots should punt more

dammit

pierce = the truth

sick catch, looked like tony g

nantz is rattled w/ the pats losing

lol broncos

omg pollard

jesus fuck

Q: Who do you think will be this year's Pollard victim? I think Brady is too obvious, and he's already gone there. Same for Welker. Gronk is out. Lloyd's been a disappointment. Hernandez isn't really that well known. Shouldn't Vegas have odds on the Pollard victim?
—Mike Bell, Alexandria, VA

"almost down phil"

also almost literally unconscious

god what i would have given for someone to just spear flacco right there

lol @ them like 10 minutes later being like "yeah oh btw ridley got knocked out and almost certainly has a concussion"

oh shit

well, at least one team is up two scores

lol yep

did we really need a pollard injury montage culminating with him concussing steve ridley?

BERNARD POLLARD WILL BURN NEW ENGLAND TO THE GROUND

― C-L, Sunday, January 22, 2012 5:48 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cbs is def trolling ne

DEFCON 4 THE HARBL IS IMMINENT

i fundamentally don't understand how baltimore does this to NE's offense. they don't even have a pass rush... and now their best corner is also out

prob not gonna watch the super baugh this year

y the hell isnt balto running

i fundamentally don't understand how baltimore does this to NE's offense. they don't even have a pass rush... and now their best corner is also out

― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 20, 2013 9:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they don't give brady very much to read and react to before the snap. that's the biggest part of it imo

hah

hah ok then

Every time the pats get a little momentum it backfires

ravs dline had had their hands up a lot i had noticed

3 hads

can't believe this is how it is. i mean, the nfl is dead to me after last week but still.

ref is so somber lol

pernell mcphee deflecting a ball intercepted by darnell elerbee is pleasing to me

did he take pats -9

the funereal feel of this is pleasing to me

yeah, it's ok.

my mind is going i can feel it

losing harbaugh has to coach the jags next yr

neither #1 seed, playing @ home, scored a single second half point

i guess playing @ home is redundant but still

what do you guys think the line will be for the SB? surely it will be higher versus the Ravens than it would have been versus the Pats. 9ers by 7.5?

9ers -5/6 or so?

ne was the #2 fwiw

xp i would be all over baltimore if that was the line

ah, im dumb xp

from the things you can't make up dept, ray lewis has blood on his (white) jersey

ray rly taking a last stab at killing it b4 retirement

falcco so elite :/

here comes the ryan mallet era

ray's white jersey will be tied up w stones and sunk to the bottom of the charles river by 11 pm est

early line with my book is niners by 4.5

ravens owner is stroking ray lewis' arm wtf

man, joe flacco is gonna be in the super bowl

i came during that ray lewis speech

suggs going ham on the pats apparently

haha belichick declined an interview w cbs

heres devin mccourty 4 ya

fuck cbs has the super bowl

theres gonna be some sweet luvin in baltimore tonight https://twitpic.com/show/large/bwzcic

the entirety of that trophy celebration was more surreal than a david lynch movie

wtf

haha get me a transcript of this wilfork press conf

man, joe flacco is gonna be in the super bowl

Randy Moss, too. I can't imagine he'll play another season after this one. Good way to go out imo.

NFL HOF class of 2018 is gonna have Ray Lewis, Randy Moss and Tony Gonzalez at the very least.

did we really need a pollard injury montage culminating with him concussing steve ridley?

ridley's arms twitching when he was more or less knocked unconscious was the moment when I had to quit watching the game & started to wonder if I really wanted to keep watching NFL at all

me 2

re: continuing to watch nfl

also i dont think that was really a fumble

also ray lewis murdered a guy

also the ravens owner clearly murdered a least one guy

i wouldnt be surprised if him and ray lewis murdered a guy together one time

xpost I recently read those articles about jason taylor & nfl injuries in general (linked earlier in this thread i think) & I spend more and more time during games being v troubled by the astonishingly high rate of serious injuries

I don't think ray lewis murdered a guy but I worry that five-ten years down the road his brain will be scrambled by too many concussions

yeah its really fucked up and will likely lead to the eventual marginalization of football as a popular sport

ray lewis did murder a guy tho

every time i see one of these dudes get clocked in the head now i think, 'well that just moved his dementia up five years'

the fucked up thing is they say its not even the big hits that do it, its the constant little hits, its happening on every play, its just playing football

I feel p depressed because of watching most of this in a bar where you get the sense that 99% of people there do not give a shit about who gets a concussion or any kind of serious injury. I usually watch games at home where I'm the only one reacting like.. this is horrible, so it's easier to deal with?

also c/d: friends who keep apologizing to you for the outcome of the game like you are a child

xpost yeah it's the linemen who get it worse b/c of all the constant hits, not the secondary who don't have to tackle that many guys per game

when you really think about it in light of all this it's kind of foul to have football be such a high pressure and influential part of high school, 15 yr old kids getting concussed ffs.

ya i bet w/in the next five years youll see some high schools start to drop football cause of concussions

and that will be the beginning of the end

in other news the dc hip hop station seems to be playing a lot of baltimore club right now

like a bmore club mix of cashin out.. oh wait now it's future

not sure if I want to root for maryland, the best state, or randy moss finally getting a SB ring. right now leaning randy moss

did ne1 see that docu 'Head Games' from this year? p relevant to the conversation. It actually made me question my passion for the NFL ( per Daria's comment upthread)

the 49ers are my #2 team so im fully on board randy university

pretty recently there was an ex-MLB player (ryan freel) who committed suicide and--kind of anomalously w/baseball--suffered a ton of concussions while playing.

also c/d: friends who keep apologizing to you for the outcome of the game like you are a child

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

better than the smug assholes on facebook who whine about sports posts on their feed during a big game

seriously fuck that, who gives a shit about whether or not you care about sports

it takes all my strength not to post something to the effect of "i dont complain about all the terrible non-sports shit you people post every day"

idk i can understand like i checked out twitter during the golden globes and i had no idea and it was really bewildering and horrible

but mostly i mean just chill people go outside breathe the air or w/e

I try not to be bothered by dumb stuff on facebook, but the thing that weirds me out lately is people who are always 100% polite and considerate in real life and then share photos from pages like "people i want to punch in the throat"

oh hey DC radio with a kendrick lamar remix <3

idk i can understand like i checked out twitter during the golden globes and i had no idea and it was really bewildering and horrible

― lag∞n, Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:53 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, it absolutely was! but did i complain? no, i just did something else.

having a good feed is not like a god-given right or something.

idk maybe freedom from clogged feeds should be a constitutional amendment tho

if the ravens win the super bowl Ray lewis will be more insufferable than jerome bettis when the steelers won in 2006

when did everyone start loving ray lewis is my question its really confusing

damn jbn otm

idk maybe freedom from clogged feeds should be a constitutional amendment tho

― lag∞n, Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a platform u could get elected on

vote 4 me i will not clog yr feeds

but all my fundraising emails will be titled 'sup'

haha

i like the ravens even though suggs is obnoxious (but v entertaining), just weighing that vs vernon davis and randy moss. idk, i am a fan of randy moss over any afc team except the pats, i think..

i will never root for the ravens because of their black tights and thats my word

rip 2012 nfl ne patriots https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BBGkvSpCMAALUNi.jpg

In the contest of crazy, I root for Jim over ray

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18c4ee9sjqtxkgif/original.gif

it was a horrible call

ridley's arms twitching when he was more or less knocked unconscious was the moment when I had to quit watching the game & started to wonder if I really wanted to keep watching NFL at all

btw, daria this was your quote I was referencing, because yah those prone arms indicate lights-out unconsciousness reminded me of Jahvid Best (this clip is hard to watch too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyv4du7BTOc

tbh i don't really like baltimore that much, i've been there so often and going there again next weekend & overall it feels like a small town to me, most of the time. dc feels v yuppie and snobby by comparison which is why i should obvs continue to live here

awwwww brady is cute

when i saw sf harbaugh bug out i said PLEASE someone make a gif of that

oh that's great that our youtuber describes concussions as "epic"

dc radio now playing soundbite of shannon sharpe complaining about belichick not shaking hands or whatever. "i'm not a hater of the patriots but when they lose it's like.. he has a good point. when they lose there's something called CLASS"

what? belichick and harbaugh spoke for well over the required amount of time after the game

shannon sharpe not a reliable source of information, surprise surprise

yeah sorry, that youtube title is unfortunate

seriously, see this

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239400/

belichick skipped the post game press conference is what he was complaining abt

shannon sharpe, defender of journalists

oh that's right, i've heard of the harvard guy nowinski (now that's a great football name for a guy on a team you hate).. it's on netflix instant, will watch asap

The brain trauma stuff is so depressing to me. It seems like every ten years or so I get disgusted with some aspect of NFL and stop watching, then get sucked back in a few years later (usually by hearing that the Bears are in the playoffs, but at some point I don't know if I'll be able to stomach the injuries anymore. The Johnny Knox back injury at the end of last season left me feeling deeply unsettled, and left me with a bad taste in my mouth pretty much throughout the off season. I told myself I wasn't going to be as into football this year, but once September rolled around there I was devoting every Sunday and Monday night to it again.

Johnny Knox injury (and I watched it live) is quite possibly the scariest sports injury I've seen in my entire life.

I live in Chicago, and it's sad how many Bears fans call in to sports radio here, and ask the hosts what they know about Knox's possible recovery, and will he come back? The guy is currently still struggling to *walk* properly; the Bears have him on the roster as IR, but make no mistake: that's only a carrot for this poor kid to try to get back to a normal life like you and me

Johnny Knox injury (and I watched it live) is quite possibly the scariest sports injury I've seen in my entire life.

I jumped out of my chair and winced and had to leave the room.

ugh i just watched the beginning of that & had to close the window, i don't need to see it. i didn't know that had happened to him, i watched quite a few bears games when he was still playing

i have a feeling that if i listened to any sports radio whatsoever i'd have quit watching in disgust years ago

ya i bet w/in the next five years youll see some high schools start to drop football cause of concussions

this is gonna be the huge turning point IMO...I can't see football losing its popularity anytime in the next 10 years, but once the lawsuits start coming and once schools decide it's not worth the risk it'll probably be a slow death

oh my god I had forgotten about the Johnny Knox injury. when I saw it live I didn't even see what the injury was. I saw his torso and below that I had assumed it was the feet of another player, then the people around me started yelling, and on replay I saw what really happened, I was so fucking stunned. I couldn't even deal with the EJ Henderson leg injury and this was five times worse

Johnny Knox got bent like a reverse taco, just in case someone hasn't seen it and accidentally goes looking for it. It's gruesome. DO NOT LOOK FOR IT.

This year, every play I saw where guys were diving for a loose ball, I winced and watched through my fingers. I do not want to see anything like that again if I can help it. The guys getting knocked out cold is really disturbing. The Darius Hayward-Bay injury earlier this year against the Steelers really bummed me out, and the Ridley one tonight as well.

Yeah the DHB injury freaked me out. I was sure he was dead

i thought that about anquan bolden when he was on the cardinals, a throw into the end zone - they had to take him out on a board.

Yeah, the Jets game? That hit was dirty, and Anquan ended up having his jaw wired shut for a few weeks iirc.

I loved the Pollard hit tonight. Probably won them the game. Great play

that was the hit that almost convinced Kurt Warner to retire if I remember correctly. he ended up not doing it but that really would have been such a huge thing had a big name player decided to hang it up out of respect for his family (granted, he was like 37)

can't really figure out why new england was so ineffective last night. keeping my eyes peeled for a convincing analysis. also not sure why playcalling and game management was so uncharacteristically conservative. would have been a really interesting game if the pats had scored the couple more touchdowns they should've got in the first half when baltimore wasn't playing well, and then had to defend that lead in the second half when the ravens adjusted and basically locked them down. amazing half of football by baltimore. primed to be an outstanding super bowl imo.

obvs not the whole story but dropped passes killed them

like there were two that wouldve been first down w/in field goal range where instead they punted

I will say the Pats definitely played better on offense than 13 points would suggest.

They had several promising drives that ended in turnovers. Also, several painful penalties.

Losing Talib allowed the Ravens to go to town with the passing game.

the wind was clearly fucking with brady which contributed to the lack of down-the-field stuff, but cannot possibly be the sole factor

magill's gonna throw out his falcon flags and pretend he never rooted for them along with all the other bandwagon retards; good riddance

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, January 20, 2013 6:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fuck you. You know nothing about me or what I'm about and you definitely don't know shit about football. All you k ow about me is what you get off a stupid Internet message board you fuck. I live in this town and I'm going nowhere, you pussy. Stop hiding behind a computer monitor. If you wanna meet for real, lets get it on. Otherwise shut your fucking trap.

lmao srs

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/6a7b1a1495e0ea98ebd042062738bb7f2d84dc7a_m.gif

Name the time and place, homie. Anywhere in metro Atlanta. Shit, I'll drive to Alabama to kick your ass. Bring your friends so they can see what happens when you try and sell wolf tickets. Go ahead and wear some of the Falcons gear you've been rocking for your years of devoted fandom so I can recognize you.

its so on

y'all should meet up at blake's on the park amirite

whats a wolf ticket

here you go, tu∞mas

h4a -3.5

ty will have to check out this wikipedia site sometime xp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dozens

this is interesting, I had no idea yo mama jokes were some complex anthropological game

this is v exciting

bill magill, 1 hour ago:

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_264/1209672173fQLn39.jpg

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs7/2660111_o.gif

http://www.trendlineinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/angry-computer-large.jpg

okay NOW do I get my Thunderdome

pleeeease

you definitely don't know shit about football.

Aw you say this to all the guys. :(

I thought what we had was special

I doubt I'll ever use the "wolf tickets" thing myself, but I am glad that I am now familiar with the expression.

Going to the Wolf Eyes / Wolf Parade / Guitar Wolf show? Yeah man I got wolf tickets

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6167/6231358936_480383efe5_o.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/398975_477442228958186_571123174_n.jpg

what

haha

that about enough of grumpycat >:(

yeah, play him off keyboard cat

Name the time and place, homie. Anywhere in metro Atlanta. Shit, I'll drive to Alabama to kick your ass. Bring your friends so they can see what happens when you try and sell wolf tickets. Go ahead and wear some of the Falcons gear you've been rocking for your years of devoted fandom so I can recognize you.

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, January 21, 2013 11:42 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol damn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsoh9GFJJXg

went almost 48 hrs before learning of AFC result!

lol @ guys in pajamas hitting ballz with stix

not much CTE tho

in the players or fans ;o)

Name the time and place, homie. Anywhere in metro Atlanta. Shit, I'll drive to Alabama to kick your ass. Bring your friends so they can see what happens when you try and sell wolf tickets. Go ahead and wear some of the Falcons gear you've been rocking for your years of devoted fandom so I can recognize you.

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, January 21, 2013 11:42 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha, i just saw this. 4 pm tomorrow Marietta town square. I'll make sure to wear my brand new bandwagon jumping Tony Gonzalez jersey (which i only got because they say he's good, which is what us bandwagoners do). I'll take it off before i kick your ass cuz i dont want to get your fucking pussy juice all over it. You have no clue what youre dealing with. I'll be sure to bring my friends, this could be good for a laugh, and i bet all of them have the 5 minutes to spare that it will take me to fucking crush you.

Can we get a web stream of this

I'll take it off before i kick your ass cuz i dont want to get your fucking pussy juice all over it.

lmao

embedded video or it didnt happen

I guess the Marietta PD is pretty lax these days

http://www.pbase.com/powdersprings/image/95434439.jpg

'brellas gettin knocked over fer sure

See you there, Bill.

someone alert crut? or wmc? to go & liveblog pls

I'm more excited for this than harbawl

http://www.daytonlocal.com/logos/releases/toughman-contest.jpg

this should happen during super bowl halftime obv

I'll take it off before i kick your ass cuz i dont want to get your fucking pussy juice all over it.

dying @ this tbqh

just dont get arrested, hardmen.

He picked a spot about 2 blocks from the Cobb County Sheriff's office. We'll see.

barefoot + jeans, Billy Jack-style

See you there, Bill.

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, January 25, 2013 4:41 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Look forward to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBaYVo89mmY

What if you guys fall in love

Hungry4Magill babbies omg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qhjprz1TNjI

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1980742_o.gif

http://www.deviantart.com/download/261062717/make_love__not_war__by_ccc7ccc-d4bfha5.jpg

loll @ lets get the gleam

after 47 years, the atlanta falcons will have their moment of relevance

looking forward to two dudes fighting over who's the bigger la clippers fan

looking forward to two dudes fighting over who's the bigger la clippers fan

YOU ARE! NO, YOU ARE

http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/lamar-odom-clippers-e1341029187386.jpg?w=525&h=498

kinda sad, mostly lol

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/hug.jpg?w=500&h=462

kinda want to write a play about this moment

maybe throw some pottery too

i'm gonna throw a pot about this moment

i will garnish it with pussy juice

oh if they break their hands and can't post for a month, dear Jesus

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/01/23/NFLscans_441x301.jpeg

L-R: control, Hungry4Ass, Bill Magill

in b4 bill chickens out

i can't watch this

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Zw32-oDZ0kQ?feature=player_detailpage"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw32-oDZ0kQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qknoN-mZAFE

should we be taking bets on who's gonna win?

who got the gleam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVAC2bUjruo

obviously none of us care at all how or if this went down because we are super mature

I suspect it was less violent than the time j0n threw a karate kick at me in his kitchen and i took him to the floor

was he defending Obama?

hmm

the silence is deafening

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta

shoulda been charity PPV event, no lie

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/guyspeed.com/files/2012/01/51244195.jpg

who's gonna be first to break radio silence and post the pics of them getting shitfaced at a bar

they better cover themselves in fake blood first or I'm gonna come down there and kick their asses myself

you don't think maybe...

http://gifs.gifbin.com/3934yu85yu4.gif

hahahahah

hillbillies: chickenshit, y/n?

oh man, what a twist

tyler d. had occurred to me, but i don't see h4a having a non-trivial knowledge of hockey?

hahaha

hungry4ass . . . lives

i did some investigating, but cannot reveal my findings

trying to find bill magill's mug shot, brb

http://i.imgur.com/usld1yd.gif

been two weeks. this is becoming key ilx lore.
hope everybody is well out there.

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